Robert Brooks was serving a 12-year sentence at the Marcy Correctional Facility near Utica. He died after an encounter with officers at the prison.

New York's governor has ordered more than a dozen state prison staffers fired over the fatal beating of an inmate earlier this month.

Homan, however, condemned the timing of the post in the wake of a gruesome attack on a New York City subway train this weekend. An illegal Guatemalan migrant allegedly lit a sleeping passenger on fire, causing her to burn to death.

Incoming Trump border czar Tom Homan blasted New York Gov. Kathy Hochul after an illegal immigrant allegedly ignited a subway passenger's clothing, leaving her to burn to death.